Today brings a nice illustration of that complexity. Eve Online is having its largest ever battle. The backstory to it is kind of great -- one coalition missed a bill payment on a star system they owned, which allowed other coalitions to jump in and fight for ownership of it. The ensuing battle was large enough that the game had to go into a mode called “time dilation,” where Eve enters super slow motion so as not to fry the company's servers.

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